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Spooking (horses, not ghosts)

ChacoL@aol.com
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:03:51 -0400 (EDT)

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I just read a wonderful description of spooking that fits endurance Arabs to
a T. It's from a new book called "The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine
Evolution, Intelligence, and Behavior," by Stephen Budiansky (Free Press,
$30.00). It was reviewed extensively in The New York Review, from which I
take this quote:

"Some horses seem almost to enjoy scaring themselves. They will snort, or
tense up and stumble, and then react with fright to the snort or the stumble
. . . The horse then begins to anticipate the fright it is preparing to give
itself."

The book sounds fascinating. Has anyone read it?

I've just put it down as the first item on my only slightly premature
Christmas list.

Linda
San Francisco

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